34/1 — Spring 2016

EDITORIAL
1–4

Confident Faith and Today’s Persecuted Church
MICHAEL NAZIR-ALI
5–18

Sovereignty and Free Will in the Accounts of Terah and Abraham
MICHAEL A. HARBIN
19–34

Diego Thomson in the Americas (1818-1844)
BILL MITCHELL
35–52

John Calvin and the Gospel Offer
DONALD JOHN MACLEAN
53–70

The Kirk, The Word, and the Text of Scripture
LIAM JERROLD FRASER
71–78

BOOK REVIEWS
79–120

  • Geerhardus Vos: Soteriology: The Application of the Merits of the Mediator by the Holy Spirit (James Baird) 79
  • Richard Bauckham: Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology (Joshua Coutts) 81
  • R Michael Allen (Ed): Theological Commentary: Evangelical Perspectives (Casey B. Hough) 83
  • Aaron Clay Denlinger (Ed): Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 (Kenneth J. Stewart) 85
  • Daniel P. Horan: Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus (Lawrence Osborn) 88
  • F. Gerrit Immink: The Touch of the Sacred: The Practice, Theology, and Tradition of Christian Worship (Samuel Tranter) 90
  • Peter J. Leithart: Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Peter Donald) 92
  • Allen P. Ross: A Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 2 (42 – 89) (Iain Gibb) 94
  • T. A. Noble: Holy Trinity: Holy People: The Theology of Christian Perfecting (A. T. B. McGowan) 96
  • James D. Nogalski: Interpreting Prophetic Literature: Historical and Exegetical Tools for Reading the Prophets (Mark A. Hassler) 98
  • Stephen N. Williams: The Election of Grace: A Riddle without a Resolution? (A. T. B. McGowan) 100
  • Michael Graves: The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture: What the Early Church Can Teach Us (D. Blair Smith) 103
  • Jason Robert Radcliff: Thomas F. Torrance and the Church Fathers: A Reformed, Evangelical, and Ecumenical Reconstruction of the Patristic Tradition (D. Blair Smith) 106
  • David VanDrunen: Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law (Mark W. Elliott) 109
  • W. B. Patterson: William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Russell Newton) 112
  • James Eglinton and George Harinck (Eds): Neo-Calvinism and the French Revolution (Marinus de Jong) 114
  • Sean Michael Lucas: For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America (Moses Y. Lee) 117